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This photo was taken on my first trip out with my DSLR. In my first trip to the Tasmanian West Coast in over 15 years, the main purpose of the journey was to experience the wonderful Wilderness Railway, better known as the Abt. Built in the 1890s by the Mt Lyell Mining Company, the railway connected Strahan and Queenstown for a number of years, before being closed in the mid 1960s and rails ripped up. In the late 1990s money was granted to re-establish the railway as a tourist venture.
In the photo here we see Abt Locomotive #1 taking on water at Rinadeena – the highest point of the journey and the lunchtime stopover. This is a tremendous journey and I would recommend it to anyone who happens to have a spare day when visiting the Tasmanian West Coast.
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Taken: May 20, 2008, 1:05 pm.
Focal Length: 55mm
Shutter: 1/59.999999999999
Aperture: ƒ/5.6
Tags: Abt Railway, Queenstown, Strahan, Tasmania, West Coast
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Bathurst Harbour is one of the last truly wild places in Tasmania, with very little human occupation since Tasmania was colonised. I recently had the pleasure I enjoying a day trip to the harbour with Par Avion tours, which took in many of Tasmania’s rugged peaks and bays, before landing at Melaleuca, before a boat took us along Melaleuca Creek & Inlet, visiting Clayton’s Landing before passing under Mt Rugby & through the Narrows to Bramble Cove for lunch. Return & fly back. Full details can be found at the Air Tasmania Website.
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Tags: Bathurst Harbour, Clayton's Landing, Mt Rugby, South West Tasmania
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Today was one of those days where it started out bucketing down with rain and ended up a hot, clear-skied evening. I took the opportunity to head up to O’Grady Falls today on Mt Wellington, but at the same time the heavy cloud cover provided some ethereal pictures.
I really like this photo. It feels like the branch in the foreground is reaching out to the craggy, skeletal branch of the other tree, as if to save it from the abyss that is veiled in the mist.
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Taken: March 8, 2010, 2:58 pm.
Focal Length: 55mm
Shutter: 1/100
Aperture: ƒ/11
Tags: Mist, Mt Wellington, Trees
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The Alpine region of Mt Field National Park is a harsh environment of many extremes. Not only is the land baked by the sweltering summer sun, but it is also lashed by vicious blizzards and submerged in deep drifts of snow during winter.
It is therefore natural that some plants do not make it. In the case of trees, they die and their skeleton is left to be bleached by the weather before eventually succumbing to rot and falling to the ground.
Over my Christmas break, I visited the Lake Dobson area of Mt Field with friends, and this was the image that I ended up picking from the set of images taken
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Well you know what they say about every cloud? It’s true. Taken at Cape DeSlacs recently.
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Whilst the cloud did make the desired photos I wanted to take that much harder to obtain, the above photo shows that you need to look around when taking photos to make sure that you miss nothing
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Taken: January 6, 2010, 7:08 pm.
Focal Length: 46mm
Shutter: 0.1 Seconds
Aperture: ƒ/22
Tags: Cape Deslacs, Cloud, Sky, Sunset
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It’s funny how things work out. Yesterday’s trip to Mt Field National Park was to take pictures of Russel, Horseshoe & Sharpe Falls to include in a 2010 Calendar. As it turns out, the photos were terrible. However the road to Lake Dobson revealed the spectacular site of Mt Field well capped in snow. So of all the photos taken yesterday, this is my pick of the bunch.
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Taken: September 12, 2009, 1:41 am.
Focal Length: 50mm
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: ƒ/10
Tags: Mt Field, Panorama, Snow
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